I have found Glaven's house

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The Heisenberg Household

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After weeks of searching, I have found the Heisenberg abode.

Rain, rain and more rain

Sorry for the lack of blogging for almost two weeks.  As I have pointed out previously, I am a slacker.  What did you expect?  Daily blogging?  Interesting stuff?  Yeah, right.

There really has not been much to write about lately.  In my neck of the woods, it has rained ALOT.  None of the rain has interfered with my running (that slacker part did that just fine). 

This morning, on the way to work, I heard the news lady warn that there was fog close to my place of employment.  Gut reaction: F*ck! Damn! Sh!t!

The morons that make a similar to commute to myself have a hard enough time driving like they have any sense when it is sunny and the roads are dry.  Now these same morons have to drive through fog?!  F*ck!

Fog = Needle late for work because people don't know how to drive (not that it matters if Needle is late because he is salaried and nobody give a sh*t except him that he is late - I am anal like that) (and no, Glaven, NOT like that).

Oh yeah, running.....hmm....yeah, I have done just a little of it.  Need. to. get. more. consistent!  Why, of why, will I not get off my lazy a$$ and go running when I know I should be??  I wish I knew.

Have a great day and I promise to post a little more often, I swear!

Surprise! I am a MORON!!!

Hi.  My name is Needle and I am a dumba$$.*

I went for a run this morning and after taking a shower and getting some coffee, I went to bimactive.com to add the run.  I use the hybrid map because I know the landmarks.  As I was looking at the map, it dawned on me that I have been using the wrong house as my start point.

Now, to those of you that live in a neighborhood, you are thinking "Pfffft, it is only like, what, 20 feet!  What kinda loser writes a blog post about 4o feet during a run?!"

First off, I don't live in a neighborhood and secondly, I am that kinda loser.  My neighbor is almost 0.1 of a mile into my run.  So I have been shorting myself, almost 0.2 of a mile on a 2+ mile run for a couple of weeks.  How could I not notice that I was using the wrong house as my starting point?!?

Time for a day of soccer and football.  (For my non-existent Euro-trash readers, that would be football and American football).

Hare a great weekend everyone!

*I have heard that admitting your problem is the first step.  The first step to what, I am not sure of.

Hu-fuckin'-midity

I went for a run this morning and by the time I was done I was just pouring sweat.  I knew that I had run at a decent pace for me (about 3 minutes faster than yesterday for a 2 mile run).

Well, I get to work and I add my run to bimactive.com.  It has a nice feature where it records what the actual weather conditions were during the run.  The temp was a nice 66 degrees, but the humidity was 100%.  I am not making that up.  100% hu-fuckin'-midity.  No wonder my balls were a sweatin'.

Knee Pain:

About a month ago, I was taking part in a soccer coaching class for U10.  As part of the training, all of the coaches went out to the field and did some drills and then played a game of soccer.  The idea was for us to get a clue as to what the players are going thru.  Being the competitor that I am, I went all out during the game.  The next day, I could barely walk and my left knee was in pain.  This same knee is still hurting, but only during side to side movements.  It does not bother me at all during my runs and the only time I notice it is when I am stretching and I put force to one side or the other. 

Should I be worried about this?  After my run, the pain in the knee is very small.

Running update:

2 day streak going (impressive, I know)

Was thinking I needed a new title

I believe Needle SHOULD be Running would be a better name right now.  Let me go ahead and let you in on a secret......I am a slacker.  I have no will power.  And I am not much to look at either (but that has nothing to do with running).

Anyway, I am finally back on the running wagon.  I only ran twice last week for a total of 4.3 miles.  Pathetic.  I am back to trying my FFBS plan that I have talked about numerous times and will keep you updated.  Occasionally.

So, what did the Needle Clan do over the holiday weekend?  We went to watch some college football, of course.  Mrs. Needle and I are both alumni of Mississippi State University.  Also, Mrs. Needle is very fond of going to football games (what can I say, I got it good).

We spent ALL day Saturday in Starkville and had a blast.  We tailgate with some friends that I went to college with.  Drank many beers and had a great time.  Poor S had to walk all the way across campus in her cast.  I am more than a little pissed at all the university golf carts that drove past us and none of them offered to pick her up.

Needle and Dicks

Sporting Goods, that is.  I was really surprised to read Nitmos' post today about his return from vacation and the fact that I won the $100 gift card to Dicks.

I would like everyone to know that I am the person that NEVER wins drawings.  EVER.  Until this contest, my grand total for winnings is one (1) Mississippi State Baseball can holder that I won in 1994.  That basically sums it up.  I did win a knife about 6 years ago in a work drawing and only because they had enough stuff so that EVERYONE got something.

I am also taking this as a cosmic hint to get off my ass and do some more running.  I am modifying the FFBS plan, effective tomorrow.  The new FFBS plan is going to try to incorporate a form of STREAKING!  Yep, in order for me to do anything run related, I have to really simplify it.  So if the day ends in "y," I will get my butt up and run.  Now, I will not do anything too stupid, like run when I am hurt or it is pouring rain. 

Am I crazy?  Am i stoopid?  Possibly and yeah.

Why Needle?

People who know me in real life don't have to work hard to figure out why my nickname has been Needle for many, many years.  So to those in blogland may wonder, where does the name Needle come from?

It is quite simple actually.  First of all, Needle is short for Needled*ck.  Now, I know that everyone is thinking bad things about my manhood at this point, but I can ASSURE you that is has nothing to do with my actual anatomy.  Really, it doesn't.  I swear it doesn't.  NO, REALLY!  Ok, maybe a little....

Basically, my last name can easily be turned into Needled*ck.  As a matter of fact, even a slow middle-school kid could come up with the nickname.  Over the years, it has just been shortened to Needle (even my wife calls me Needle half the time).

How it became an officially official nickname:

When I was in college I marched in the drum line.  Since we had allot of material to learn, we always started a couple of days before the rest of the band.  At that time, all of the members of the band were listed on a huge board in the Band Hall.  As I walked into the Band Hall, on my first day on campus, with all my stuff still in my car, I introduced myself to the drum captain and the other returning drummers.  Immediately, BC yells across the room "Hey! Your Needled*ck!  As soon as I saw your name on the board, I knew this was going to be your nickname." 

It was custom for everyone on the drumline to have a nickname and I was the first of the new drummers to get one.  Even before I had showed up.

Needless to say, this nickname has stuck with all of college drum line buddies and most of my college friends.

So there you go, a little synopsis of the name.